The Mafra media group will finish the impartial publication of the newspaper Lidové noviny in printed type on the finish of August, the corporate introduced in a press launch. “Probably the most profitable complement of Lidové noviny Orientace, because of which 1000’s of readers subscribe to the newspaper on Saturdays, will develop into a part of the Saturday version of Mladá fronta DNES from September,” introduced Mafra.
The corporate justified the adjustments because of the state of affairs in the marketplace, with the truth that on the similar time there shall be a big growth of printed creator contributions on the lidovka.cz web site, particularly opinion texts.
The web site Mediář.cz studies, that in response to present information in Could, Lidové noviny offered a complete of 17,514 copies per version, with about 8,000 subscriptions and 4,000 over-the-counter gross sales. One other 4,600 are offered electronically. Whole gross sales of the day by day from Monday to Thursday don’t exceed 15,000 copies. The strongest day is Friday, when the newspaper publishes the Pátek LN journal with a TV program and sells over 25,000 copies. Virtually 22,000 copies of the Saturday concern with the aforementioned Orientation complement are offered.
The newspaper Lidové noviny was based in 1893 by the journalist and politician Adolf Stránský, its publication was stopped in 1952 by the communists. In 1987, a gaggle of dissidents illegally resumed its publication, and within the spring of 1990, it started to be printed legally as a day by day newspaper.
